An average session with the boys is still way better than all my day jobs combined.
Track one that snappy guitar run by Garcia
afterward they mention The Yardbirds.
Lightning-) Supplication was perfect in 1976
I could listen to that 24/7
it reminded me of a wipeout from a big wave
and then after getting rolled
coming up to white foam.
No Donna
Billy still on his own.
I would call this pre-funk
The Gd weren’t going disco
They were searching for the Mother Ship,.
The Slipknot track seems the most complete.
Garcia has isolated the rift he had tinkered with live since 1973 and he is off to the races..
amazing they could banter freely
In the middle of getting down
a new tune,
Another day in the studio
and it’s just like any other day
that’s ever been..

Some cool jams, nothing over the top

Nice little jam (good equiptment does matter!) about 10 minutes into track 1. Though it almost regresses into Goin Down the Road several times, Keith, with help from Phil brings it into a funky simmer with a taste all its own...
Turn it up and enjoy studio quality sound...

A lot of this session seems to be just killing time in the studio, with Garcia noodling a bit while everybody waits around. Note that the music doesn't start until seven minutes into track 1 - but this happens to be a VERY unusual surf-style rock jam which doesn't sound like anything else the Dead did, so it's worth checking out! After that they try out an embryonic Lazy Lightning, but beware - almost all of track 2 is dead space. Then they go through the Blues for Allah intro in track 4; and track 5 finishes with a long Slipknot jam. (This may be from a different date; it's a monitor mix, so the recording is distant & we hear the band talking over the music.)

Sure, I could do without the ten minutes of mostly inaudible banter at the beginning of track one, but once they get into that first jam...man they're smokin'!

but the quality is like a phone machine and it never really gets going.